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Best Product: IQAir HealthPro Plus

You might be scratching your head wondering what that appliance up above is. At quick glance, it looks like a mainframe computer, circa 1988. But inside the IQAir HealthPro Plus system's industrial ca...

Best Product: Electrolux Ergorapido 2-in-1 Sweeper

Let me clarify about the title above: the Electrolux Ergorapido 2-in-1 Sweeper is the best hard floor vacuum for pet owners. After countless recommendations from other cat owners, we finally got our ...

We Just Can’t Container Store Ourselves Enough: 9 Products We Love

We swear they pipe something into the airducts at The Container Store. We go in there for one thing, our list firmly in hand, and come out with a dozen other things, the list be damned. Here's a ...

Best Product: Gonzo

We have a friend who loves to give parties. When she redecorated and we encouraged her to put in a white shag rug, she assumed it was a not-so-subtle hint that her hostessing days were over. Not true...

Our Favourite Posters of "Things"

Have you noticed the ongoing trend of artwork, wall declas, print graphics and t-shirts with categorized groups of objects? "Things" in multiples and silhouetted to their simplest graphical represent...

Best Products: Double Stainless Steel Turntable

Spin me round. Although I'm not a major gourmet in any way, I somehow have managed to accumulate a variety of spices. I don't have a traditional spice rack, as I never really liked the look of all t...

Best Products: Puffs Plus with the Scent of Vicks

We know many of you out there are suffering from allergies and/or colds right now. We've been sniffling and sneezing like crazy with all the particles in the air, so we thought we'd pass on a recommen...

Best Product: Apple Airport Extreme

Do you know what we absolutely detest? Wires. Although we've been able to use strategically placed furniture and cable hiding products to reduce visible wiring, even our small studio apartment is lin...

Keep Vermin Out: DAPtex Insulating Foam Sealant

Maxwell has recently mentioned the trials and tribulations of combatting rat visitation (infestation, depending upon perspective). We've fortunately do not have rodent roommates. But we once did have...

Best Products: Luminere Candle lighter

Since we've been posting a lot of candle related posts, we thought we'd share one of our favorite recent finds: the Luminere Candle Lighter, by Bic. What makes this lighter unique is that it has an ad...

Classic Century Footed Serving Bowl

If you're going be throwing a party, you're going to need a serving bowl. This classic "Century Footed Serving Bowl" is one that you will always be able to rely on. Created by renowned designer Eva Z...

Best Products: Muji screwdriver set

Sometimes, you just need a screwdriver...(the tool, not the drink...) and when you do, you dig around your tool chest, go back to the problem, and then find out you got the wrong head. Then you go all...

Opair by Monopezzo

If my socks were starring on a television show, the show would undoubtly be LOST. With each trip to the laundry mat, I'm almost guaranteed to find myself the adopter of countless orphans...a sort of ...

Bread Boxes

We recently read that keeping bread in the refrigerator actually accelerates staleness. Apparently the best way to store bread is in a dark, not too damp or dry place to allow the bread to slowly rele...

Best Product: Oxiclean

Remember when the Oxiclean infomercials started? We used roll our eyes and lump them in with every other bad, late night idea. Fortunately we opted against calling in for the Spray-on Hair and Pocke...

Pottery Barn Teen Catalog

We get a Pottery Barn Teen catalog in the mail every other day (an exaggeration, but not by much) We flip through looking at the brightly colored sheet sets and fun accessories, but were always shoc...

Best Product: Nevr Dull

Nevr Dull is one of the must-haves in our cleaning supply kit. This non-toxic stuff will shine up a sterling silver frame from Tiffanys as well as the mud-incrusted chrome rims on your car. It clea...

Best Product: Brother Label Maker

Whenever we have a few extra minutes we try to do a litte organizing. Yesterday we filed. Now, while we hate to file, we love a good art project, and thats what the Brother label maker gives us. We ...

Alessi Blow Up Baskets

We love the Blow up series of bowls that the Fratelli Campagna Design Firm created for Alessi. Various lengths of stainless steel wire are used to create the light but strong and functional baskets...

Soft Wall From B & B Italia: Funky File System as Furniture

We saw this on New York Magazine's "Best Bets" page and thought it was pretty cool. This wall unit/magazine rack/letter holder is from the fancy B&B Italia in New York. New York Magazine refers to it ...

Tivoli Radio: So Old, And Yet So New

We love our Tivoli Model One AM/FM Table Radio so much, we don't know what to do with ourselves. When we got it (as a gift a few years back) we thought the old school look fit right in with our decor ...

Things From Ikea That Don't Suck: Shopping Like It's Christmas Morning!

We took a little trip out to the Carson Ikea to have a look around. Since it's impossible for us to walk away empty-handed, we thought we'd share. We got a Trensum Mirror which is simple in design, w...

Ikea's Banana Leaf Stools

We tend to treat Ikea like the nerdy kid in high school that constantly saved our ass by letting us cheat off of his homework, but then we still made fun of him at lunch. While we are too often guil...

Mr. Clean Magic Erasers: Bring it!

We are having a little love affair with the Mr. Clean Magic erasers. We got the tip from our equally obsessive cousin and while we are not usually fans of what feels like a marketing ploy, we found so...

Best Products: Ikea Grommet Curtains - Good Enough for SJP...

In the latest Elle Decor, Sarah Jessica Parker's Bridgehampton house is beautifully shot to show us how the high life is lived with simplicity and elegance. But what thrilled us most was seeing the ...

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